Video games are way oversubscribed as a profession. Until millions of boys stop growing up wanting to be game designers, it will always be that way.

Bioware have way to much 'inbreeding' between their games. They'll bring a character in to do an hour for Dragon Age, an hour for Mass Effect and an hour for Star War The Old Republic at the same time, which while economically efficient makes all their games feel even more the same.

Not every game has to be realistic. Some overdone cops-and-robbers pew pew does not require a deep look into the nature of police militarisation in America.

My apologies. I thought the 2m estimate was for Berlin alone, and the 8m was for the whole country (or Russian sector anyway). Still, I think the point stands that this is not a new occurrence.

What upsurge? I would argue that there has been an upsurge in *reporting* on these incidents. The idea that violence against women is greater today than at other times is frankly ridiculous. The mass rapes during the Bosnian War by different ethnic groups, the rape of 8 million German women by Soviets after WW2,…

You genuinely think this horrible stuff in India didn't go on before there was porn? It went on, it was just considered so mundane they didn't even report onto it until feminism has reached them in the past few decades.

Sony has been making losses for a LONG time. It's not greedy short term capitalists' fault that their shares have been on a general decline for literally years now.

Does Boycotting mean you'll actually stop playing their games, or just pirate them.

Some ideas for future Kotaku headlines:

I don't blame them for not saying anything- they would be crucified for being honest in this situation. It's a sad day when not including a female PC is a heinous crime in the eyes of the gaming press.

I'm unsure why someone who "always dreamed of going to E3" doesn't understand the basics of game design.

That 48% of gamers who are women are spread amongst a very different demographic. Women form the majority of players in many social games, some casual/puzzle titles, lots of mobile titles, and The Sims. They are nowhere near 48% of core action-adventure titles like Assassin's Creed. I will dig up the gamasutra…

I have to say I absolutely hate when the execs try and dress 'cool' with some blazer/jeans combination. Honestly at this stage I would probably have more respect for someone who came on with full well-fitted suit and tie, with pocket square.

If you're a kid out there, and want to go into games- this is how you do it. Work hard at school, study Finance or Economics at a top 10 University/College, work in investment banking for a few years, get on a media investment team at the bank, and then transfer to an executive role at a big publisher. I guarantee…

Sounds like part of an elaborate joke that I don't get. No one actually believes that.

I imagine they signed the marketing deal a *long* time ago.

The problem is that they didn't want to make a 'jokey' game, which is fine since we have a ridiculous number of un-funny 'comedy' games out now (Saints Row, Borderlands etc..), but the reality is that a Stalinist shithole stuck in the 1950s is never going to take over the world. If we're picking Communist countries…

Where does it say Deep Silver in the article?

England FUCK YEAH?

It melted your card? Were you getting artifacting or high temps before or was it just *boom* one minute and it was gone? What card, and what game settings?